NTP can take a considerable amount of time (hours) to whip the system clock into submission if it had drifted far off UTC.
You can start the ntpd with an option to force it to change time directly. It used to be that you'd run ntpdate first and then start ntpd but ntpdate has been depreciated.
ntpq -p will show a little more details about the status of ntp sync. First thing to run when troubleshooting ntp.

The size difference on files on my computer was an issue with dropbox on the latest version of Win10. I used my mac to download all files and then moved the Dropbox folder inside OneDrive and got all synced. Apart from some files not being synced all looks good now. I am almost ready to cut Dropbox, part of that I already switched from yearly plan to monthly (was due for renewal on sep), just keeping it a month or two more to finalize.
With the new option of getting MS offoce on unlimited devices and concurrent sign in to 5 devices with the O365 plan ( https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Blog/You-re-about-to-get-even-more-from-your-Office-365-Home-or/ba-p/234907) along with smart sync, I guess its a great deal

@Ambarishrh said in Anyone tried Sync?:
@Reid-Cooper said in Anyone tried Sync?:
That's interesting. More and more things are moving to a model like that, the zero knowledge thing, but people are used to companies have that knowledge and it will cause a lot of problems.
1Password does the same thing actually, if you forget the master password, its gone. Only thing is when you introduce dropbox for password sync, it defeats the purpose.
I've never looked at 1Password, how does dropbox sync defeat the purpose?
LastPass works similar in that the LP doesn't have the ability to reset your password. One thing they do setup is a one time password in the first PC you install LP on. Using that computer you could then unlock your account and reset your password, one time. You can enable this one time password on each computer you install LP on if you want more recovery options.
Additionally, you can create a OneTime Password list that you could store securely and use to regain access if you forgot your password.

@Breffni-Potter said:
@JaredBusch said:
The better solution is for an initial sync to know that it is an initial sync with empty folders and just start puling data instead of "checking for changes" to files that do not exist.
Not used the client but would a feature request be a button that lets you do that when adding the OwnCloud server to the client? Little tick box somewhere?
The client checks if the target directory is not empty and warns you about it. So it knows already.

@alexntg said:
Mmm, steak fries! Feel free to sync those over to my house.
How many files are being synced?
She has 3k or so files. no where close to the 20k limit. Another user does have more than 20k. I taught him how to create zip archives.